Week 13

Part 1A:

Deaf West Theater Clip

In this short clip They show the Big River. The first musical to use deaf and hearing actors on the same stage. It looked like they where performing the song " Waiting for the light to Shine". The actors are performing/singing in American Sign Language and English. I think this is a great way to encourage people that there can be good communication and understanding amongst everyone even if they have a disability.

Merlee Matlin Dancing With The Stars

In this clip Marlee Matlin and her partner Fabien Sanchez from Dancing With The Stars were being interviewed. Maelee had an interpreter who would interpret what everyone was saying, so that Marlee could be part of the communication. I really liked to see this clip because it shows how well people with hearing disabilities can communicate now a days. And how understanding the rest of the people are towards them.

Indiana Visual Arts Day

This was an informative video clip of a Visual Arts day hosted in Indiana for the Deaf School. VSAI and ISD presented bi-lingual, bi-cultural themed arts activities through a community­ based celebration of the arts. Also nationally known Rathskellar-a group of Deaf performance Artists from Gallaudet University. They had many activities amongst them were: Visual Arts, Dance, Theatre, Percussion, and ASL story learning Lessons. I enjoyed this video, it showed how much communities do for hearing impaired kids. They looked happy and were enjoying all the different activities they had for them.

Waiting For the World To Change

This video is a song called "Waiting For the World to Change"by John Mayer. In this video there are people performing the song in ASL.There are quotes and information rewarding Deaf Culture trough out the video. There have been accidents and shootings involving deaf people who had nothing to do with crime and they couldn't express their innocence. I really like this video because This is a song that has a massage and gives hope and inspiration to those who keep waiting for the world to change. I think they should have more videos of different songs that could be performed in ASL so that that culture can have more entertainment as well.

Deafnews.com

In this website you can find many links and they lead you to videos and news that deaf people can watch. It has also a interpret in English. What i found interesting was that as she was doing the signs the narrator would stop to give her time to finish with all the signs. Then he would interpret what she meant. I think that is obvious that it takes longer to communicate in sign language than in English or any other language. Because the movements of the mouth are just faster than the hands, but with practice they can get just as fast.

Sign Language Singers

In this video there are three kids performing the song, "Change A Heart, Change The World" by Jump5. I thought it was a really good song. They danced very synchronized. I don't know it they were deaf or not but if they were they had everything right. That is a beautiful song to begin with and those kids could really show what they felt.

A 1 Year Old Hearing Baby Signing

In this video there is a mother and her baby girl. The mother is demonstrating that signingreally works for babies. The baby is just one year old and she knows over 50 words and knows them in sign language as well as English. I think this is great and more mothers should encourage this because this is a language that can be used more in the future. Babies also develop their vocabulary faster if they are taught with complex sentences.

MSSD

At the Model Secondary School for the deaf they have many interesting curricular activities. Everyone knows sign Language and those who get there without knowing learn and get fluent in it. Students also create a portfolio and join inter ships that could be beneficiary for their future careers. They can also communicate with their loved ones through a web cam. At that school they are well equipped with everything specially the world wide web. They also have many sports and cooking classes. I didn't know that such schools existed but now I see that this culture is not left behind and that there is help for them. This helps them to be social and prepares them for the outside world and their future career.

Gallaudet University

This was a clip of a tour of Gallaudet University. It didn't seem to big, but i liked the style. It showed the dining area, the Ballard North and Ballard West Dorms ( formally Krug and Krogswell), Carline, Clere, and Benson Halls, there was also a gate house, an American flag on top of a building with a clock on it, and a conference center. I think this building might be old but it looked nice!

The Forest - A Story in ASL with captions

This is a video of a virtual guy telling a story of a big man who was in the forest and he found what he had been searching for many years. He dreamed of catching the bird and buying a new car and being rich. He dint know how to catch the bird and he remembered that as a child he came across some rotten fruit. He searched the forest for some smelly rotten fruit and he found some he then when to the bird and the bird smelled the fruit and went down to the man. The man then caught the bird and was rich and smelly!

EXTRA CREDIT

ASLPro.com was created to be a free resource for the classroom teacher. Teachers can create accounts and personalize a quiz for their students' use, then take them into a lab and let them practice seeing models other than their own teacher. Because their signs are designed to be used in student quizzes, Non-Manual Signals are purposefully omitted. They welcome the general public to view their site, but it should be noted that this site is not designed to be a stand alone learning tool. A user's best course of action is to enroll in an ASL class with a qualified teacher who can guide them in such variations as regional differences and facial expressions that are not addressed in their video database.
The words I chose were: Love, Happy, Soul, Accomplish, Life, and Sky.

B) ASL Facts

1. ASL shares no grammatical similarities to English and should not be considered in any way to be a broken, mimed, or gestural form of English

2. The first 6 moths are researched to be the most essential stage where a child develops his language skills.

C) Deaf Culture

1. Statistics prove that deaf people live longer than hearing people.

2. The man who invented shorthand, John Gregg, was deaf.


Part 2:

1) Antonio- He said that the way Steinbeck described the Big Sur made him imagine it as a very beautiful place that he wish to visit someday.

2) Catherine- She chose Playland at the Beach because of the history and dreamlike reality the thought of such a place conveys. I chose this one too it was really interesting!

3) Alex- I learned that Berkeley's slow growth ended abruptly with the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.

4) Mario- I learned that in 1905 city development increased when Pacific Electric Railroad established a southern terminus in Newport connecting the beach with downtown Los Angeles.

5) Judy- Was born in Los Angeles there for she chose Seal Beach for that reason.

6) Raquel- I learned that Geographically speaking, Big Sur is said to start from the Carmel River to the San Carpoforo Creek, encompassing between 90 to 99 miles of breathtaking vistas, cliffs, enormous waves, rocks, blue sea and marvelous vegetation.

7) Michael- He found out that it was originally called Bay City, but there was already a Bay City in Northern California, so they decided to rename it, and named it Seal Beach.

8) Dinlaka- I learned that Big Sur was first inhabited by Esselen, Salinan, and Ohlone native Americans way before the Spanish colonization era.

9) Danielle- I learned that Beverly Hills is located in the western part of Los Angeles county and is part of the "Plantinum Triangle" which includes itself, Bel Aire and Holmby Hills.

10) Tamika- I learned that There are only 14 miles from Disneyland, 20 miles south of Long Beach, 50 miles south of Los Angeles, and 64 miles west of Palm Springs.